Unable to create Kafka topic while deploying MSK on EC2 instance

I followed the writeup that is listed on AWS for deploying an MSK cluster. In step three, you have to create a topic. I have deployed Kafka before locally so I was surprised to the error below considering I had never seen it before. Could someone give some clarity on why this would be occurring and how to solve? My hunch is that is has something to do with the way that zookeeper is configured in the Kafka distribution that the guide had me download but I have had no luck troubleshooting. Thanks and see below for error message.

[2022-06-29 19:18:03,393] WARN Session 0x0 for server boot-jkawwilb.c3.kafka-serverless.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/172.31.12.247:9098, unexpected error, closing socket connection and attempting reconnect (org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn) java.io.IOException: Packet len352518912 is out of range! at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocket.readLength(ClientCnxnSocket.java:122) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNIO.doIO(ClientCnxnSocketNIO.java:88) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxnSocketNIO.doTransport(ClientCnxnSocketNIO.java:365) at org.apache.zookeeper.ClientCnxn$SendThread.run(ClientCnxn.java:1223)